The Return of the King DVD

Morril · Post by **Morril** » Sat May 22, 2004 6:33 pm

Originally posted by Moonbiter
I do not believe it! Disgrace!!!!!!!

Believe it or not - it is still true

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:54 am

Sorry, forgot to add a smiley. Had a tipple last night. 4 days in the woods fishing will make you behave "off" some times.

Christopher Lee was miffed when he didn't get his Saruman parts in the cinema version of RoTK, but he wholeheartedly endorsed it later, when he saw the finished product. We get a full hour worth of extra material on the DVD in September(?) and being the pathetic fanboy that I am, I'm not going anywhere NEAR a second-rate teaser DVD until then.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:21 am

Have to sell my 2 ordinary DVDs from the first two movies and get all three on extended ....

But not making the same mistake and buying the ordinary RotK .... this time I'll wait for the extended to come out.

Then all three extended and I'll have a heck of a movie night

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:33 am

Can you imagine that? A full 13 hours worth of ONE MOVIE in one sitting?

Lemme see...: Junkfood? Check. Beer? Check. Snacks? Check. Phone off? Check. Doorbell disconnected? Check. Claymores? Check....

My purple tutu is fishing that donut checkmate!

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Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:39 am

Originally posted by Moonbiter
Can you imagine that? A full 13 hours worth of ONE MOVIE in one sitting? Lemme see...: Junkfood? Check. Beer? Check. Snacks? Check. Phone off? Check. Doorbell disconnected? Check. Claymores? Check....

My purple tutu is fishing that donut checkmate!

.....

...

Well - I've tried "worse" so to speak.
A James Bond marathon some years back, of 42-ish hours at the movies in a row, with a 15 min. intermession between every movie.
The local cinema arranged the event, that showed all made James Bond movies at that time, finishing off with "Tomorrow Never Dies".

Now *that* was surreal, and cause me to start hallucinate near the end

- LotR in extended versions would be but an appetizer

I like such movie watching - makes for an event in itself. Have also been to a Lethal Weapon with all 4 movies showing, and a Star Trek, but that was only 4 of the movies.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:00 am

Og må jeg få spørre hva en vennlig Skandinav gjør oppe på denne tiden på en Søndag?

The worst thing I ever did was watch ALL (at that point 11) Friday The 13th movies in one sitting, only fuelled by beer, cigs and carbohydrates. Now THAT was a seance every fledgeling shrink should have seen.

Four guys running around the campus at 6 o'clock in the morning looking for gardening tools and cheerleaders, whispering "Ki-ki-ki... Ma-ma-ma..."

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:12 am

Originally posted by Moonbiter
Og må jeg få spørre hva en vennlig Skandinav gjør oppe på denne tiden på en Søndag?
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It is almost noon. No need to sleep more then 6-7 hours. Although I'm slowly becomming a late sleeper these days... annoys me, I've always been a morning-person.
And btw - keep in english

Friday the 13th.... don't think I've watched even one of them, let alone could I imagine watching more of them in one sitting.
<flamebait> Would rather watch Tarrentino ... *uhhh* low blow

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Naa - I like to watch movies like this watching, a number of - or all of - a series (so to speak) in one sitting. It makes for a totally new movie experience. Wether it be DVD or at the movies.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:29 am

I know about the English...

I normally have my son (His Droolness) crawl all over me at six in the morning, so my biorhytm is set to that. No matter what I do the night before, I'll wake up at point, like clockwork.

Back to movies... I think LoTR will re-define the whole movie/media experience in more ways than being just 3 megapack DVDs. Like the review in Empire says, the whole massive experience of seeing it as a whole is far better than watching the movies separately. Wanna make bets some freak is gonna glue all 13 hours together and put it out on the net?

Morlock · Post by **Morlock** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:25 pm

I can't believe people still go out and buy the regular editions en masse. The DVD releases of LoTR are one of the most shameless money grubbing techniques ever in the movies.

I'm just glad that after November the movies will finaly become history, and stop being the present. I am a big fan of the movies, but enough is enough. They're not the greatest movies ever, the obsession regarding them has taken away from the massive achievment that they are.
IMO the movies as a whole are far better than any individual part, which are all flawed.

I will be buying the Extended Edition of course, and I will pay a ludicrous amount to see Howard Shore conduct his LoTR symphony, but I think it's about time the world started getting onto other things in the movie world.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Sun May 23, 2004 2:56 pm

I totally agree. The main problem is that LoTR has set a standard that will be hard to follow up. Anyone serving up a movie adaption of classic lit, or even any sort of fantasy/adventure related film will be expected to deliver something equally epic and grand. Look at the mess they made of the last couple of Matrix movies, the CGI overkill that is Van Helsing or the cheesy girl's-own droolfest that is Troy. None of them lives up to the "expectations" according to the critics, who now judges every single move post-LoTR by a certain standard. Imagine what poor George Lucas is thinking.

First he delivers two remarkably mediocre attempts at re-creating his own magic which did box office mostly because of the core fanbase, but now he will have to deliver a finale that equals Return of The King!LOL! That's not gonna be easy when you're stuck with the most wooden actor since Pinocchio playing your main character...

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:10 pm

Originally posted by Kaitsuburi
I have started a little fund for buying the Extended Version BOX of the Trilogy (there's got to be one!)...

-kaitsuburi

This is definitely the one I'm patiently waiting for!

A friend of mine will be running off to buy the latest extended DVD, but I can't really see the point, I'd rather buy the set all at once, I can wait

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Mon May 24, 2004 6:27 am

Originally posted by Moonbiter
Can you imagine that? A full 13 hours worth of ONE MOVIE in one sitting? Lemme see...: Junkfood? Check. Beer? Check. Snacks? Check. Phone off? Check. Doorbell disconnected? Check. Claymores? Check....

Heh. One of my friends is already planning it.

It is a must-do, surely. Although it would be even cooler if they released the extended editions cinematically.

I have sat through several 12(ish)-hour movie marathons before, when I was in the student film society. They were six movies though, rather than three!

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Wed May 26, 2004 12:47 pm

Originally posted by Morlock
I can't believe people still go out and buy the regular editions en masse. The DVD releases of LoTR are one of the most shameless money grubbing techniques ever in the movies.

Heh.

Count me in on the regular edition! But I have my reasons....

I never saw the theatrical release! That's my main reason.

I can't just rent it, either, because my movie viewing schedual is such that most of my rentals are returned late enough that I might as well just buy the darn thing and view it at my leisure!

I also believe that a director's vision should be respected. If there were parts cut out of the movie by the director (for whatever reason), then I would like to see the version he intended, and to continue to have it as an option to view later. I always appreciate restorations of great films when they take pains to put back scenes that censors had taken out - the reconstruction of Metropolis comes to mind, though some cut scenes only exist as movie still now, and the re-mastered Lawrence of Arabia which included the scenes with homosexual overtones put back in. I understand that the original Godzilla will be re-released soon - the version that was originally made in Japan without Raymond Burr. I'm looking forward to it.

The scenes and bits of story that were cut out of the theatrical release of LotR were cut by the director's choice. I would like to think that he made that choice in order to make the film better (though I suspect he also wanted to make it palatable to an audience with the attention span of the 5-year-old

). But, since I never read the books, I won't miss anything that only the die-hard fans would be screaming about missing. I want to see and own this version so that I can appreciate an extended version later, if I ever get the box set....

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed May 26, 2004 12:59 pm

Ah, being a consumor whore is fun. I've already bought the theatrical releases of all, as well as the extended of Fellowship, and intend to buy the extended of Two Towers, and RotK as well. Maybe the box set as well. Ah well.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Wed May 26, 2004 1:20 pm

Originally posted by Gwalchmai
The scenes and bits of story that were cut out of the theatrical release of LotR were cut by the director's choice. I would like to think that he made that choice in order to make the film better (though I suspect he also wanted to make it palatable to an audience with the attention span of the 5-year-old).

I think it was more a question of not being able to release a theatrical version that was four and a half hours long. People wouldn't go and see it. They certainly wouldn't want to take their kids to it. I think Peter Jackson accepted that. But why would he release the extended versions on DVD - note, not the theatrical version, plus deleted scenes as extras, like some DVDs have, but put the effort in to cut the deleted scenes into the movie properly - if that wasn't the way that he would have wanted it if not for constraints of time and such?